Understanding and Imitating Unfamiliar Actions: Distinct Underlying Mechanisms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Carmo, Joana C ^a,b   Rumiati, Raffaella I ^a   Vallesi, Antonino ^a,c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MIRROR NEURONS; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867377952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046939     Document Type: Article

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